Tag Archives: graduate school

Language Studies and Graduate School

Posted on December 13, 2010 by nathanalbright

In my continuing series on graduate school, I would like to talk today about one of the often-neglected areas of study for the graduate student:  foreign languages.  Though not often planned in advance, graduate students in history need to show … Continue reading →

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What It Takes To Write A Norwich Capstone Paper

Posted on December 6, 2010 by nathanalbright

Today I saw on my blog site statistics that someone had come to this blog looking for Norwich capstone papers.  I’m not sure precisely why, but for someone to do so they would have almost certainly been students at Norwich … Continue reading →

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The Ingredients of a Ph.D Application

Posted on December 2, 2010 by nathanalbright

Today, as I am gathering up the pieces of paper that will be sent off shortly, I thought it worthwhile to discuss for those who are applying to graduate school (especially in the humanities) just what sort of information is … Continue reading →

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A Look At My Library List

Posted on November 30, 2010 by nathanalbright

A friend of mine called me on the phone a few minutes ago asking if he could pick up some books at the library for me, and I politely told him that I was planning on going to the library … Continue reading →

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Research and Unforseen Implications in the Horn of Africa

Posted on November 27, 2010 by nathanalbright

In many ways, graduate school-level research is like playing with the Russian fabrige eggs, pulling off layers only to find more intricate layers of complication underneath.  Being the sort of person who likes to talk specifics, let us show how.  … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Get Into Graduate School

Posted on November 23, 2010 by nathanalbright

Get Into Graduate School:  A Strategic Approach for Master’s and Doctoral Candidates, by a nationwide team of graduate school admissions advisers, published by Kaplan I happen to have read this book after finishing two graduate programs, one a Master’s of … Continue reading →

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Some Musings On The Curriculum Vitae

Posted on November 23, 2010 by nathanalbright

In the course of obtaining my second required recommendation (of three), I was told by my former professor that I needed to write up a curriculum vitae (or CV for short, meaning “life’s course” in Latin) of my academic achievements.  … Continue reading →

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Character Is Destiny

Posted on November 22, 2010 by nathanalbright

In the, so far, most notable of slightly more than three score plays I have written (and one of two plays, so far, with its title taken from lyrics to a Nelly Furtado song, oddly enough), a work called “Even … Continue reading →

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A Musing On Recommendations

Posted on November 21, 2010 by nathanalbright

Sometimes you find out a lot more about someone, and reveal a lot more about yourself, as a graduate student when you look for recommendations.  For anyone who has applied to graduate school, and often even undergraduate programs, there was … Continue reading →

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On Finding the Right Fit

Posted on November 19, 2010 by nathanalbright

As I promised I would in my introduction to this blog, I thought I would introduce you, the reader, on some of the goings on of a would-be historian such as myself.  Today I would like to talk about the … Continue reading →

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